North America's Sixteeners

Boulder CO resident and guidebook author, Gerry Roach, has completed the
highest 10 summits in N America. He also has completed all the 16000 foot
mountains in North America except Bona which is the 11th highest. The last
summit was Mount St. Elias (18008'). His climbing partners for this one were
Mike Butan, Chris Haaland, Jim Rickard and Bob Wood. All are local Colorado
guys.

Gerry was the second person to complete the 7 summits, 12/13/85
(with Kosciusko). He also climbed Carstensz 5/3/94. So he
is on both seven summit lists.

Here is the list of N Americas top 10 per Gerry:

McKinley

US

20320

Logan

Canada

19524

Orizaba

Mexico

18700

St Elias

US/Canada

18008

Popocateptl

Mexico

17887

Foraker

US

17400

Ixtaccihuatl

Mexico

17343

Lucania

Canada

17147

King

Canada

16973

Steele

Canada

16644

Bob Ayers adds:

the first person to climb the seven highest in N America
was a woman: Barbara Lilley of southern California.